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To meet the session objective, we will:
1. List the 13 basic needs of every ASME volunteer.
2. Contrast motivational techniques used in military units, religious groups, politics, and sports teams with those most effective with ASME volunteer leaders.
3. List several leader relationships that changed the course of history.
4. Examine how some daily task rules can help you to successfully lead people who are leaders in their own right.
5. Discuss how the skills of volunteer leaders can be applied to meet the mission of ASME.
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Outline
• Review of Learning from “Select” track
• Motivational Models
• History of Great Leaders
• Seven daily tasks for leading a group of
leaders
• Guidance for ASME Volunteer Leaders
• “What will you do with this?”
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13 Basic Needs of Volunteers Determined by a task force survey of ASME units
and industry sources.
Tasks to match interest
Good reasons
Written instructions
Specific tasks
Reasonable deadline
Freedom - convenience
Everything necessary to
complete w/o interruption
Adequate training
Safe work environment
Follow-up by leaders
Opportunity for feedback
Rewards to match reasons
Value-added to encourage
employer participation
Motivational Models
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History of Great Leaders
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Guidance for Volunteer Leaders • P-4.3 Qualifications of ASME Elected Officers:
“elected officers are expected to possess high qualities of character, vision, leadership, responsibility, and broad understanding of the Society”
“Leading Leaders”
American Management Association
• ASME Unit Leadership Resource Center
http://volunteer.asme.org/unit/
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Leading Leaders: How to Manage Smart,
Talented, Rich, and Powerful People
Jeswald W. Salacuse
Task 1 Direction - Negotiating the Vision
Task 2 Integration – Making Stars a Team
Task 3 Mediation – Settling Leadership Conflicts
Task 4 Education – Teaching the Educated
Task 5 Motivation – Moving Other Leaders
Task 6 Representation – Leading Outside the Organization
Task 7 Trust Creation – Capitalizing Your Leadership
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Task 1 Direction - Negotiating the Vision
To determine a direction for elite followers, structure and conduct a strategic conversation on that subject, rather than impose a new vision from the top.
Make sure the process allows for the genuine participation of followers, and for decisions based on acceptable principles and standards.
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Task 2 Integration – Making Stars a Team
Make the common interests of your organization’s members apparent through meaningful activity.
Learn to understand the nature of the cultural differences that divide your organization’s members and then seek to find ways to bridge that gap.
Demonstrate by both word and deed that you put the interests of the organization above your own.
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Task 3 Mediation – Settling Leadership
Conflicts
Seek to understand those leaders’ underlying interests, not just their stated positions.
Consider carefully the six mediation power tools of reward, coercion, expertise, legitimacy, reference, and coalition that you may employ and how they might be applied most effectively in the conflict you are facing.
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Task 4 Education – Teaching the Educated
Think of yourself not only as a teacher, but as a manager of the education process in your organization.
To the maximum extent possible, do your educating one-on-one, rather than in groups.
Actively involve and invite the contributions of the persons you would educate in the process.
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Task 5 Motivation – Moving Other Leaders
Learn as much as you can about what the person is doing and has done, as well as the interests that are driving that person’s actions. Usually the best source of that information is the person in question.
On the basis of that knowledge, seek to understand and develop the particular incentives that accord with those interests and may therefore move that person to act in a desired way.
Agree on future goals in the short term, medium term, and long term for that person, and show how those goals relate to those of the organization.
Agree on a plan of action that is specific, doable, and clear.
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Task 6 Representation – Leading Outside the
Organization
Remember that every act or statement that you make, whether in public or in private, has the potential to affect your organization’s relationships with the outside world. Nothing you do is purely personal. A leader is always on stage.
If those interests are dysfunctional or unrealistic, seek to change or transform them through on-on-one diplomacy and strategic conversations among your followers.
Beware of confusing your self-interest with organizational interests.
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Task 7 Trust Creation – Capitalizing Your Leadership
Recognize that people will trust you not because of your charisma, your charm, or your vision, but because they have concluded that your leadership will advance their interests. You therefore need to work to understand the people you lead and to know their interests.
The provision of information and your openness to those you lead are important building blocks of trust.
Be consistent and predictable in your actions as leader. Beware of the trust obstacles of lack of time, leadership mobility, an overly competitive environment, and exaggerated manifestations of the leadership ego.
What will you do with this?
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What will you do with this?
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A Call to Unity in Service –
Knowledge and Community Focus
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What will you do with this?
Remember – Leading Leaders also means
preparing others to be your successor.
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To meet the session objective, you should be able to now:
1. Consider the 13 needs of ASME volunteers.
2. Contrast motivational techniques used in other groups with those most effective with ASME volunteer leaders.
3. Appreciate how effective world leaders used techniques for leading leaders.
4. Examine how some daily task rules can help you to successfully lead people who are themselves leaders.
5. Discuss how the leadership skills of volunteers must be applied to meet the mission of ASME.
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Understanding and mastering the techniques
for Leading Leaders will enable you to
successfully serve as the volunteer leader of
an ASME unit to the standard described in
Society Policy P-4.3 “Qualifications of
ASME Elected Officers”
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Leading Leaders
For questions or comments Rick Marboe
Presentation available at events.asme.org/LTC13/
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